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Don’t find yourself out of the loop INSIDE: NEXT COPY DEADLINE IS In the Loop 2015 Glennville Royalty 2 APRIL 1, 2016 — SO SEND IN THOSE ARTICLES AND PHOTOS Friendship Quilt Auction 2 www.glennvillerodeo.org Honor Flight of Kern County 3 School Board Elections 4 History of Blake School, Woody 4 Editorial Staff: Erin Rogers & Susan Stone Volunteer Appreciate Fun 5 Graphic Design Layout: Scribbles Studio - Bakersfield Sweetheart’s Valentine Concert 6 Contributing Writers: Susan Stone, Erin Rogers, Nancy Campus Life Ride 4 Youth 7 Carver, Pam Manny, Abby Grisedale, Kellie Grisedale Photograher: Paula Francis, Erin Rogers, Susan Stone Autum Stew Recipe 8 Copy Editor: Jake Rogers Glennville 4-H News 8 Rancher’s Wife 11 RODEO 101: 67th Glennville Rodeo The 67th Annual Glennville Rodeo is a the opportunity to be the host of the Small does not necessarily mean we will have a wrap, with cowboys and cowgirls leaving our Miracles Dinner and Auction, helping them bigger crowd in the grandstands. It does rodeo grounds with their winnings and trophy raise over $160,000 for families dealing with mean that we have to secure additional stock. and hitting the road for the next rodeo on childhood cancer. We are successful when With the 217 entries this year, we had 30 bull their quest to earn the right to be selected for our reputation for excellent arena conditions, riders (meaning we needed 30+ bulls), we the . As in years past, quality showmanship, and increased prize had 17 bronc riders and 14 bareback riders our great team of GMVA officers, members money attract 217 of the very best PRCA (that meant lots of horses!) and with 40+ and board of directors did an amazing job competitors from all over the nation to our team ropers, we of course had to have a lot in the preparations and execution of the one-day rodeo. We are a success when we of roping steers on hand. This year, our cost three day rodeo events. We had wonderful are able to accommodate over 1200 people in for the Flying U Stock was $27,000. Then volunteers who came from early morning our grandstands and provided quality family to late at night to make sure our guests were entertainment. well served at the Small Miracles Dinner, the However, it is almost impossible to make roping and barrel race, the concessions, and any money by putting on a rodeo alone. in the campgrounds. The key to our success The GMVA depends on its concessions, is the wonderful people who come out to help dance and beer sales to increase our revenue the GMVA make everything work. throughout the whole weekend. Let me When the GMVA is successful with the explain why. PRCA competitors pay an entry The grandstands during the 2016 rodeo rodeo weekend, does that mean we made fee to be a part of the Glennville Rodeo. a lot of money? Not necessarily. In fact, Those fees go directly to the PRCA and are this year, we basically broke even. We used to pay the “purse” or pot. In addition were successful because our guests had a to those fees, the GMVA adds $22,000 to the great time, everyone was safe, food service purse to make the Glennville Rodeo Round GMVA Rodeo Commander Bret Rogers presents Stephen Goldwater of Emporium operated efficiently, and our rodeo fans loved Up Rodeo the richest one-day rodeo in the Western Store with the the rodeo. We are a success when we have nation. An increased number of contestants 2015 Legacy Award Spurs OAK TREE COMMUNITY Cont’d on page 7 CENTER EVENTS (Woody)

Reverse Drawing to Benefit GMVA Buildings & Grounds Improvement October 31 - Halloween Party December 19 - Christmas Potluck December 19 - Blake School Performance Saturday, November 14th the GMVA bathroom flooring and fixtures, new kitchen We will also raffle off a custom engraved December 31 - New Year’s Eve Party Hall will once again hold friends and family flooring, and appliance improvements. This Ruger 357 revolver with a stainless steel gathered together to help raise funds for the year, we hope to raise enough money to barrel. Tickets are only $10 and available GMVA EVENTS (Glennville) continuing efforts of the GMVA to improve address many items on our improvement list, for purchase from any GMVA member or the Glennville Rodeo grounds and buildings. including grandstands, VIP area, back patio contact : Our Annual Reverse Draw Dinner and Dance paving, and outdoor sink. Bruce Carver at 661-393-1516 October 3 - Youth for Christ Fundraiser will give ticket holders the opportunity to The GMVA has also received a donation of a historic and beautiful quilt, handmade October 17 - Honor Flight Fundraiser win cash and prizes throughout the evening The evening will end with dancing to the November 14 - GMVA Reverse Drawing in 1933 by the women of the mountain in addition to a delicious dinner for two from music of the Steve Woods band, celebrating November 28 - Craft Faire the culinary expertise of our GMVA kitchen communities. This quilt will be up for auction the winners and those who just came to make February 13, 2016 - Valentines Day Dinner & crew. Tickets are $100 for two people. This during the event. We are currently accepting a donation! Tickets to the Reverse Drawing Dance with Dave Stamey annual fundraiser has helped the GMVA fund other items to be a part of the live auction. Dinner and Dance are available now from March 19 - Queen Clinic the purchase of many improvements including If you are interested in making a donation, any GMVA member or contact: June 12, 2016 - 68th Annual GMVA Rodeo new heating and cooling systems, new please contact Bret Rogers at 536-8941. Bret and Erin Rogers at 661-536-8941 2 FALL 2015 In the Loop Our 2015 Glennville Rodeo Royalty Respect our Introducing your new Glennville Rodeo Royalty- Miss Glennville Dominique Mantel, Glennville Jr. Queen Katelyn Priddy, and Glennville Princess Maycee Knight. These lovely young ladies will be traveling to different PRCA such as Local Bears Tehachapi, Kern County Fair, Springville Rodeo, Bakersfield Stampede Days, and many more, proudly representing the Greenhorn The GMVA recently hosted a Mountain Veterans Association. They will have prizes, games, and information about the 2016 Miss Glennville Rodeo Clinic and Department of Fish and Wildlife Pageant. presentation to address recent issues with bears in our community. This Dominique Mantel is the 21 year old daughter of Todd and Darla Mantel. She grew up in the heart meeting gave community members of Monterey County where she graduated high school with honors in Agriculture. She loves to travel, an opportunity to learn helpful tips on encounter new experiences, and meet new people. She currently attends College of the Sequoias and keeping bears away from their home and pets. It also gave community members is majoring in Ag Business, she will be applying for Fresno State this fall. In her free time she loves an opportunity to express their ideas and to compete on her colleges Woman’s Equestrian Team. The lady Giants are a year round athletic team, experiences to those in the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Wild traveling throughout the state and nation to compete. If she’s not in the show pen she’s competing in animals don’t need your handouts. They need your respect. team penning or trail competitions with her two American Quarter Horses. Dominique is very excited You may not realize it – a simple bag of garbage, bowl of pet for the year ahead as Miss Rodeo Glennville, and cannot wait for the memories that are going to be food, or plate of leftovers left outside your home or vacation site made. can cause severe harm to wildlife. Whether you live in a city or a rural part of California, wild animals are your neighbors. Most wild Hello Rodeo Fans! My name is Katelyn Priddy and I am so excited to be the 2015 Miss Rodeo animals will not bother you. They naturally fear humans and keep Glennville Jr. Queen. I am a 5th Generation Kern County resident whose great great grandfather was their distance – so long as they remain fully wild. But if wild animals have access to human food and garbage, they want more and more. the first recorded child to be born here in Kern County (1866). I feel blessed to be born into a family They lose their natural fear of humans and can become aggressive. whose roots run deep in western tradition and ranching. I am 16 years old and attend Frontier High Bears and other animals are attracted to anything edible or smelly. School. After high school I am hoping to attend Texas A&M and focus my studies in the equine The bears are especially attracted to dog food and molasses coated field. grain. Here are some tips to keep bears away from your home. Rodeo and the western lifestyle have always been important in my life. I currently compete in junior • Store garbage in bear-proof containers, or store garbage in rodeos, gymkhanas, and am active in FFA. I also am proud to represent Kern County as a junior your garage until pick-up. beef ambassador where I promote the importance of ranching and beef production. I look forward to • Keep food indoors or in airtight and odor-free containers. meeting with you and sharing my love for the great sport of rodeo, and the traditions. • Put away picnic leftovers; clean BBQ grills. • Keep pet food inside • Pick up fallen tree fruit as soon as possible, or protect fruit The year was 2008, I Maycee Knight was going to conquer at the Glennville Rodeo. trees with electric fencing. This wasn’t my first rodeo, but it was the first time riding sheep. I was HOOKED! Between the events • Remove cosmetic fragrances and other attractants, and watching the royalty, I knew this is what I wanted to do. including bird feeders and compost piles. I am a 7th grader at Norris Middle School. my sister Sheridan and I show at 4h, breed and open horse • Install or request bear-proof trash containers. shows. I am so excited to represent the GMVA as the 2015 Princess. So far I have visited Salinas Bear Country Precautions where I had the opportunity to tell the parade judge where Glennville was located as well as letting her • Keep a close watch on children, and teach them what to do if they encounter a bear. know it’s the largest one day rodeo. We then attended Tehachapi for another fun parade and rodeo. • While hiking, make noise to avoid a surprise encounter We have a lot of events ahead of us and I am thrilled to be able to share my love of rodeo with with a bear. everyone. Thank you to my parents John and Stacy Knight who help me fulfill my dreams. • Never keep food in your tent or on a outdoor patio. • Store food and toiletries in bear-proof containers or in an Applications, Rules and Regulations available on airtight container in the trunk of your vehicle. January 1, 2016 at www.glennvillerodeo.org. Ready to Make your Rodeo Queen • Keep a clean camp by cleaning up and storing food and Saturday, June 4th, 5 PM - Speech and Modeling garbage immediately after meals. Thursday, June 9th, 4 PM - Horsemanship Dreams Come True? • Use bear-proof garbage cans whenever possible or store Friday, June 10th, 8 AM - Equine & Rodeo Knowledge Test your garbage in a secure location with your food. The Miss Rodeo Glennville Queen Pageant is Friday, June 10th, 2 PM - Interviews • Never approach a bear or pick up a bear cub. the perfect place to start! Sunday, June 12th, 1 PM - Coronation • If you encounter a bear, do not run; instead, face the Queen (ages 18-23) Jr. Queen (14-17) Princess (9-13) animal, make noise and try to appear as large as possible. • If attacked, fight back. • If a bear attacks a person, immediately call 911. The Thomas Midnight Pewitt Memorial Ranch For more ideas on how to keep your home and pets safe from wildlife, please visit www.wildlife.ca.gov/Keep-Me-Wild. Rodeo College Scholarships The purpose of the “Thomas Historical Friendship Cowboy Tough Midnight Pewitt Memorial Scholarship” is to encourage High 2015 Scholarship Winners Quilt Donated for Auction School Seniors who have been involved in sports and agriculture to Local names stitched on 1933 continue with their education. Mona (Grisedale) Carver, Granite Station, is 24 Dustee Albitre North High You can download a Scholarship donating a historical friendship quilt, made in Callie Bassett Frontier High Application after December 1, 2015 approximately 1933, to be auctioned off at the Midnight Pewitt Memorial Abigail Nicole Campbell Centennial High at www.tmpranchrodeo.org. upcoming GMVA reverse drawing dinner, November Ranch Rodeo Shannon Grace Carver Valley Oaks 14, 2015. Charter Ethel Bohna, a teacher at Blake School in Woody Scholarship Eligibility Guidelines Alejandra Ceja Robert F. Kennedy High from 1927-1928, started the “Neighborhood Club” • Current graduating High School Senior Jaime Cervantes Jr. Arvin High with local ladies in the area. One of the projects • Plan to attend a two or four year college or equivalent Rebecca Marie Coburn North High of the club was making a friendship quilt. Each Additional Positive Characteristics Andrew “Drew” Adam Francis North High member of the club chose a favorite pattern and • Demonstrate a good moral character Brant Michael Grisedale Granite Station stitched her name on enough blocks so that each • Demonstration of a commitment to community service Christian Academy lady had a block from every other member in the Financial Information Brooke Michelle Woods Centennial High club. This allowed every member to have enough • Four $1000 dollar scholarships per year for students of Agriculture Kenia Machuca Arvin High • Four $1000 dollar scholarships per year for students of Athletics name-stitched blocks to make a quilt. Morgan Paige Wonderly Liberty High • Students must provide verification of being registered in the educational One of those quilts, in excellent condition, will be on Bianka Marie Pantoja Arvin High program for each payout. display, complete with the background and history of each Michelle Anne Williams Frontier High • Monies can be used for any educational need (books, tuition, etc.) of the ladies whose names are stitched on the quilt, prior to Application Deadline: the quilt being auctioned off. Proceeds to benefit the GMVA Postmark by April 1, 2016 Buildings and Grounds Improvement Fund. www.glennvillerodeo.org In the Loop FALL 2015 3 Honor Flight Kern County to Land at BIG Changes at the GMVA Rodeo Grounds Linns Valley to Mountain Poker Run to benefit Honor Flight Kern County Valley School

Our nation’s greatest generation of heroes will be coming to the Glennville Rodeo Grounds, as well as hundreds of motorcycle riders, classic car enthusiasts, and hundreds of Honor Flight supporters for the Second Annual Valley to Mountain Poker Run on October 17th. Gates will open to the public at 10 am, with the riders arriving at the grounds at 12 noon. This year the organizers have planned an entire day of events for all who attend. Halliburton will be on hand offering great food from their barbeque and the GMVA will have cold beer and sodas at the beer stand. Proceeds from the day will all go directly to Honor Flight of Kern County, giving veterans from World War II, Korea and Vietnam the opportunity to travel to Washington DC to see their memorials and give them a time to reunite with other fellow veterans. Those who have already participated in these trips have reported how healing it has been for many of the veterans, how they told stories of their war experiences during and after their honor flight trips that many of their friends and family members had never heard. Entry fee at the gate is $10 per adult, Kids 10-2 $5, infants are free. To enter the poker run, please contact Tim and Stephanie Collom at 661-536-8114. For more information about Honor Flight, please visit their website at www.honorflightkerncounty.org. The Linns Valley - Poso Flat School District has made some major changes and In 2014, Saddle Sore Saloon partnered with improvements to their mighty school in 2015. the Greenhorn Mountain Veterans Association, Joining the school is “new” principal, Tammy O’Hennings Bar, Dawg House and Tom and Cheryle Pritchard. Tammy isn’t new to Linns Valley Saturday Simpson to raise money for Honor Flight Kern County. School, she was a Teacher/Principal there Honor Flight Kern County is an organization who from 2000 to 2007. October 17, 2015 sends World War II and Korean War Veterans back to With an enrollment of 30 students, along Washington D.C. to see THEIR memorials. We fly with 2 teachers and 2 paraprofessionals, the veterans to Washington D.C. to visit the memorials students are enjoying a few new elements Gates Open at 9 AM built to honor their service to the nation. It is a life- brought to their campus and classrooms: Glennville Rodeo Grounds changing experience that every veteran should have the Glennville, California opportunity to experience. • Expanded library to a larger area In 2014, with amazing support from businesses and • New rain gutters (we hope to put to individuals in and around Kern County, we were able good use this year) Lunch provided by Halliburton to raise over $42,000, enabling us to help transport • New carpet in the classrooms numerous deserving veterans back to Washington • New A/C units MUST ATTEND EVENTS: D.C. • New Tack Board Walls in 2 With your continued support, we are looking forward classrooms. Mud Pit Tug-a-War to sponsoring many more veterans in the coming years • Freshly painted classrooms Bakersfield Police vs. Kern Co. Sheriff to visit and reflect at THEIR memorials. It is with the Woody Fire Dept. vs. Glennville Fire Dept. help of your donations that make this invaluable gift Principal Pritchard stated that they are possible for our veterans. researching the possibility of purchasing Quick Draw Booth Interactive Smart Boards for use in the Live Music by John Hollins Band classrooms. A Smart Board, or interactive Arena Entertainment whiteboard (IWB) is a large interactive Steak Cook-Off display that connects to a computer. A projector projects the computer’s desktop Saddle Sore Saloon’s Tim Collom vs. onto the board’s surface where users control KUZZ’s Geoff Emery the computer using a pen, finger, stylus, or (Loser goes in DUNK TANK) other device. These devices can enhance the Car Show ($10 donation entry) BRONZE SPONSOR - $250 enjoyability and effectiveness of lessons. Judged by attending Veterans 4 Entry Tickets Linns Valley School is also participating Kids Corner featuring Arena Banner (must provide) in the Air Quality Flag Program. Each day Bounce House they raise a flag that Obstacle Course SILVER SPONSOR - $500 corresponds to how Face Painting clean or polluted 6 Entry Tickets the air is according Arena Banner (must provide) to each day’s report. The color GOLD SPONSOR - $1500 of the flag matches EPA’s Air Quality 10 Entry Tickets Index (AQI): green, since 1948 4 event t-shirts with logo yellow, orange, red Arena Banner (must provide) and purple. Sponsor 1 (one) veteran to Washington D.C. On unhealthy days, the school can use this information to adjust physical activity DIAMOND SPONSOR - $5,000 + to help reduce exposure to air pollution, while 20 Entry Tickets still keeping students active. 6 VIP Tickets w/steak dinner & drinks EPA Guidelines for School Flag Program Judge in Steak Cook-Off Contest Green - Good 8 Event t-shirts with logo Arena Banner (must provide) Yellow - Acceptable Sponsor veterans to Washington D.C. Orange - Unhealthy for sensitive groups Red - Unhealthy Purple - Very Unhealthy www.glennvillerodeo.org 4 FALL 2015 In the Loop History of Blake School....Woody, California From School District Origins in Kern County, California Kern County Superintendent of Schools, 2010 Woody’s ranch, northeast of the townsite. Dr. Woody was named the district’s first clerk, by Jerry Kirkland a position he held for the next twenty-one years. Enrollment dropped steadily following The Blake School is located just a few miles below Glennville formation of the Woody district and by 1898-99 just nineteen students were in attendance. in the small community of Woody, the district’s only townsite. By 1913, serving but a handful of students, the district faced the possibility of suspension It is truly a one-room schoolhouse with all grades being taught but was saved in the eleventh hour with the enrollment of two youngsters, Gladys Moore

SCHOOL DISTRICT by the teacher/principal. and Ernest Seeley, she being barely 5 years old and he being but 4! That year the student ORIGINS IN With an ADA most years of about 10 students, Blake is body was made up of 3 Seeley children, 2 Moore children, and 3 Maltby children. KERN COUNTY CALIFORNIA the smallest school and school district in the county and Enrollment was bolstered, at least temporarily, following World War I when the opening among the smallest in the state. Average daily attendance of the Blue Mountain Gold Mine prompted a number of new families to move into the area. for the 1993-94 school year was fifteen students, an The Joiner School District was formed May 6, 1886 and was named for a family that lived aberration considering that the district’s mean enrollment in the Woody area. for the prior twenty-five years had been fewer than nine Note: An earlier history of Kern County school districts indicates that the school students. Average daily attendance for the 2015-2016 year was located on a plateau about two or three miles southeast of Woody but Ward Woody, a is currently 8 students. grandson of Sparrell Woody, a long-time school board member and a lifelong resident of

KIRKL A ND BY JER R Y Commercial deposits of copper were found near Woody the community, recalled that the Joiner School actually occupied three different sites in 1891 by Joseph Weringer who, shortly thereafter, and, after having been moved twice from its original location, was located on the Williams S, 2010 OF SCHOOL UPERINTENDENT OUNTY S OF KER N C AUSPI CES UNDER THE CR E ATED opened the Greenback Copper Mine and begin extracting Ranch at the time the district was annexed to Blake in 1922. the ore. The ore was carried by wagon to Lerdo where it was In 1887-88, the year after the Joiner District was formed, the teacher of record was loaded on railcars for shipment to a processing plant. Weringer laid out the Woody R.L. Stockton, later to become the county superintendent of schools. Since Stockton also townsite, built a hotel, and is generally regarded as being responsible for the development of served as the teacher for the Granite School that same year, it is presumed that the schools the little mountain community. held sessions at different times of the year allowing Stockton to teach at both schools. The town was originally called Weringdale but the name never caught on and, in time, it As in many small districts, the Joiner School was the social center for the ranching and came to be called Woody after Dr. Sparrell Woody, an early homesteader and rancher farming people in the area and was termed “Wigglefoot Hall” by one old-timer because so with substantial land holdings in the area. Dr. Woody, whose descendants still own and operate many dances were held there. The Joiner District had a recorded ADA of seven students the Woody Ranch, was a medical doctor but appears to have had more interest in cattle and in 1886-87, its first year in operation. The next two years would see an increase to thirteen land acquisition than in the practice of medicine. (In the words of his grandson, Ward Woody, students, but a steady decline followed and the district was declared lapsed and annexed to “He didn’t do a lot of doctorin’.”) the Blake district in 1922. It bears mentioning that two early county superintendents had With the opening of Weringer’s mine, mine workers and their families were attracted to the been teachers in the Woody area: J.H. Berry, County Superintendent of Schools from 1884- area and Woody experienced a substantial increase in population. As the town grew, members 1886, was a teacher in the Woody School District in 1891-92, as was the aforementioned of the community felt a pressing need to provide schooling for their youngsters and addressed R.L. Stockton, who served as County Superintendent from 1903-1914. Due perhaps to that need by forming the Blake School District and opening its remoteness and/or the fact that the person hired for that Blake School in 1899. position must teach all grade levels, a host of individuals The new district, carved out of territory that had previously have served as teacher/principal in the Blake District in the been held by the Woody and Joiner school districts, was past four decades. The district’s board minutes generally named for a local miner, Frank Blake. Blake had been refer to these individuals as “teacher/principal”, which is the holding classes in his cabin and would continue to do so appropriate designation since the bulk of the administrative until the school house was built and ready for occupancy. tasks for which a superintendent would be responsible are The first Blake School was located some two miles west routed through the office of the Kern County Superintendent of the Woody townsite, a location chosen because it was of Schools. closest to the greatest number of students. That original Blake’s teacher/principal for the 1961-62 school year building was moved to its present location in 1917. was Eugenia Snyder. She was followed by: Beryl Goodrich Although there are 117 square miles of territory within (1962-65), Barbara Drake (1965-66), Barbara Peterson its boundaries, the area served by the Blake district is but (1966-67), Carol Wilbur (1967-68), Ruth Howell and sparsely populated and enrollment has always been quite Tommye Ledbetter (1968-69), Nola Bilyeu ((1969-70), small. In its first year in operation, 1899-1900, the district Original Blake School house Patricia Meek Farrell (1971-74), Cheryl Wages (1974- had an average daily attendance of fourteen students. ADA 75), Elaine Hopkins (1975-76), Rose Danner (1976-77), rose to a high of twenty-one students in 1916-17 but then, Cynthia Carver (1977-78), Dan Koskinen (1978-80), Julie with the closing of the mine in 1918, there began a slow Nelson (1980-84), Joel Hampton (1984-88), Robin Lindsey downward trend. The geography of the Woody area presents itself as ideal for grazing cattle (1988-89), Amy Newton (1989-92), Jack McLaughlin (1992-94), Michael Coleman (1994- but it does not allow for diversified use of the land and so it followed that the loss of the jobs 97), Charles Coleman (1997-2000), Kim Bell (2000 to 2005), and Sandra Halbrook (2005- provided by the mining operation would appreciably diminish Woody’s population.The tiny 2007). The Blake School District currently employs one credentialed teacher/principal, number of students being served each year has often put the Blake district in jeopardy of Mrs. Dawn Carver,one part-time instructional aide, one part-time secretary, Mrs. Erin lapsing but strong community support has managed to keep the doors open. Records indicate Rogers, and one part-time custodian, Ms. Betsy Carver. Blake Elementary school receives that the district was actually suspended in August of 1921 and again in August of 1944 because administration services and speech/language services, which are contracted through Kern of low enrollment but, in each instance, it was reestablished before the beginning of the school County Superintendent of Schools. The Blake School District Board consists of three board year. There was a threat of suspension in 1929 when it appeared that only four students would members from the Woody community. Blake is unique in that it is one of only a handful of be enrolled, not enough for state funding, but the district was saved when the board hired a school districts that still operates a teacherage, once considered a necessary accommodation teacher on the condition that she bring her younger brother and sister with her from the bay for districts looking to attract teachers to schools in remote areas. The attractive house at area and enroll them in school, which she did! The Blake district faced lapsation again in 1967 the Blake School is located immediately adjacent to the old school building. with the passage of legislation affecting districts with fewer than 200 students. They managed Ward Woody and his wife, Muriel, were active members of the Blake school community to survive that crisis only to have the school building condemned for failing to meet the for many years, Ward was a member of the board of trustees and Muriel as secretary to the Field Act standards. That problem was solved with the purchase of a new portable classroom board for some 27 years. In 2001, the old Blake school was refurbished and is now a center building which was set in place and opened in 1969. Average daily attendance for the 2004- for library and art activities. A dedication was held in September of that year honoring 2005 school year was 12 students, the ADA then jumped to 17 students in 2005-2006. Closing the Woodys by naming the “new” facility the Ward and Muriel Woody Library and Art enrollment for the 2006-2007 school year was 14 students. Average daily attendance fell to just Center. nine students for the 2008-09 school year.The territory making up the original Blake district Because it is so tiny, the Blake district has, over the years, been assigned a consultant grew with the annexation of the two small adjoining school districts from whom its original from the office of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools. More formally designated territory was drawn: the Woody School District, which was started in 1883 on the Woody District Advisory Services, their function is to assist small school districts with fiscal Ranch and lapsed in 1945, and the Joiner School District, which had been formed in 1886 and procedures, the recruitment of staff, and other operational issues, which serves to free up lapsed in 1922. The Woody School began operating in 1873 and was located in Rag Gulch, the teacher/principal to focus on curriculum and instruction. District Advisory Staff may some two miles from the Woody townsite. It was ten years later, in 1883, when the Woody also serve as interim superintendents when an unexpected vacancy at that position occurs, School District was formed and, at that time, the school house was moved to Dr. Sparrell remaining there until a replacement can be found.

www.glennvillerodeo.org In the Loop FALL 2015 5 Beef Production:

By Abby Grisedale More Than A Criminal Fairytale 2015 California Beef Ambassador

Today, I caught a animals, and to the legacy that they bled, sweat and sacrificed practices modernized, but the industry is in essence, still the mustang from our herd to build. same. As far as the criminalization of agriculture goes, the of horses, threw on the I know for a fact that I’m not the only one with that feeling media plays a huge role in spreading false and misinterpreted saddle that my great- about beef production. Ranchers are so deeply invested in information making ranchers and farmers the bad guys. Far grandma Eva and dad their operations, and, if I could leave one message with every from their media portrayal, agriculturalists are working to rode before me, strapped person I talked to about beef, it would be this; Our livelihood is better every corner of our planet, from the environment, to a rope and a roll of wire raising cattle, and we love it. We are passionate, hardworking, the efficiency of animals to feed people, to the full utilization on, and trotted out from kind people, working towards the goal of feeding the world. of the animal to ensure that no waste occurs. Ranching is still our barn to gather strays Maybe not in as many words, but we know that our hard work reality, and people need to hear and see that it isn’t as bad or and fix fence. My dad and commitment to compassionate, humane treatment of our mythical as it’s been interpreted to be. and granddad taught me animals is more than important. The beef industry is a business with the necessity for hard how to rope and ride and Beef production is science and business, yes, but more decision-making, but it is also full of committed individuals mend fences, and all that than that, it is a lifestyle. It is full of art, and rich in beautiful who wouldn’t do a thing to harm the business they’re in. So they learned from their things and beautiful ways. It has a code of honor among many fronts are attacking ranching and beef right now, but I own father. For five generations, cowboys have been saddling men (and women), a way of doing things that is tried, true, encourage you as members of your community to take them horses and heading out from the same place and for the same efficient and effective. It is a life that lends to ample time in with a grain of salt, do some research, and talk to a rancher. purpose that I did this morning. the outdoors, where true environmentalists are made, from Once you do find the truth, don’t keep it to yourself. You have The one thing that makes me the most passionate about experience, from real life, and where inquisitive minds are the unique position of sharing with people, and they’re taking beef and ranching is the tradition. Ranches all over our county, made even more so, because the land we live on and use is so in the things you say, whether it seems like it or not. Share our state, and our country have been built from the ground up complex and beautiful. It makes fun-loving, adventurous kids the real-life things you’ve learned and will learn, because the over several generations. All of your beef originates on family into hard workers, but I’ve yet to see a hard-working cowboy people in your life, especially young people, could be future farms and ranches, and I would venture to say that a great that has lost his sense of fun and adventure. world leaders, bankers, lawyers and voters. They’ll make many of those are multi-generational. After seeing firsthand The problem nowadays is that beef production has been decisions someday, and I want them to hear from you what the things that my grandpa, great-grandpa and great-great made into two things; criminal and fairytale. Cowboys and it’s really like to produce your food. I want them to know grandpa did to build the Grisedale Ranch, like put troughs in great herds of cattle moving up the trail to huge stockyards that the romantic image of cowboys isn’t just a story, they are deep canyons, and build fence up steep mountains, I can’t help are a thing of history and storybooks, but the problem is, that real guys with real jobs that are really awesome and produce but feel an incredible sense of responsibility to the land, our lifestyle is still very real. Granted the trails are gone and the your real beef.

Note: Abby will be traveling to Denver Colorado on September 25th and 26th to compete for the National Volunteer Appreciation Fun Beef Ambassador title. Kern County Beef Ambassadors Katelyn Priddy, Samantha Carver and Taylor Jensen will Old Fashion BBQ and Movie on the Lawn be appearing at the Kern County Fair on Saturday, October We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. So on a perfect evening on August 29th, the 3rd at the Kern County Cattle Women booth, engaging the GMVA put on an old-fashion BBQ, complete with outdoor movie to show our gratitude and appreciation to our hard working public and offering tickets for a chance to win a beef basket, volunteers. valued at $100 in quality Rankin Ranch Beef! Hosted by the Martin & Stone Ranch, 90 smiling faces arrived with their lawn chairs and blankets in hand, as well as their favorite dessert to share. Complete with chalk art for the children, open bar for our guests and unending catching up, the evening could not have been more perfect. Jeff Stone and Bret Rogers cooked up hot dogs and hamburgers for the crowd before they all found their spot on the lawn for the outdoor movies. A short film found in the attic of the old Martin Ranch House, featuring the first Glennville Rodeo, GMVA Hall & Rodeo circa 1948-1949 was shown followed by the El Nino Rodeo of 1998. Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. Grounds For Rent ~Author Unknown The Greenhorn Mountain Veterans Association Rodeo Arena and Hall are available for rental to the general public! The GMVA Rodeo Arena and Hall are the perfect place for your next event! It has hosted weddings, reunions, motorcycle clubs, and junior rodeo events. Their prices are affordable and the facilities are beautiful.

Price List

• Hall: Includes main hall, kitchen, parking and tables and chairs. $300 per day • Hall and BBQ Area: Includes main hall, kitchen, parking, tables and chairs and BBQ area. $375/day • Meeting Room: Inside the Hall there is one meeting room that will seat approx. 25 people. Rental (4) hours max. $25 • Rodeo Arena and Grounds: Includes outdoor restrooms, BBQ area, parking and arena. $250 per day • Entire Facility: Includes Hall, Arena, Campground, outside bathrooms and parking. $500 per day

All rentals require a cleaning deposit. For information on renting the GMVA Rodeo Grounds, contact Bret or Erin Jeff Stone mans the bbq Wonderful Volunteers Rogers at [email protected] or visit www.glennvillerodeo.org for additional information. 6 FALL 2015 In the Loop Cowboy and Cowgirl Sweethearts Celebrate Scholarships Awarded Valentine’s Day in Glennville by KC Cattlewomen

The GMVA will the Year, and five time Songwriter of the Year by the Western On Saturday, August 8th, the Kern County Cattlewomen welcome back Music Association, and received the Will Rogers Award gathered at Benji’s Basque Resturaunt to award thirteen to Glennville the from the Academy of Western Artists. This year, he is again deserving students scholarships totaling $9,250. Students troubadour of the nominated for Entertainer of the Year and Male Performer of Photo Courtesy of Paula Francis were required to complete a three page application, including American West, the year. He’s delighted audiences in twenty three states, and an essay on “sustainability in the cattle industry”. Mrs. Dave Stamey. finds that he prefers this to being stomped by angry horses. Julie Barnett, the KCCW Scholarship chair, reported that Cowboys and Tickets for the Valentines Dinner and Concert will be Indians Magazine available on January 1st. Seating will be assigned on a first the average score for our applicants was 84%, giving our has called him “the sale, first seat basis. Tickets are $75 per couple, includes scholarship judges a very difficult decision in awarding the Charley Russell of dinner, concert and a Valentines gift for each couple. To monies available. These exceptional students shared their Western Music.” purchase tickets, please call Erin Rogers at 536-8941 or visit passion and purpose in pursuing an education in agriculture. Western Horseman our website to purchase online at www.glennvillerodeo.org. We congratulate our winners: Magazine has declared his Andrew Francis Abigale Grisedale “ Song” Olivier Alvarez Callie Bassett Nationally Acclaimed to be one of the Victoria Warner Kathryn VanderPoel Cowboy Entertainer greatest Western Tickets go on sale Morgan Wonderly Mallory Harrison Dave Stamey songs of all time. Cameron Ford Lexie Smith In 2010, 2011, and January 1 2016 Shannon Carver Jacob Aranda 2013 True West Magazine named him Best Living Western Brant Grisedale Solo Musician. Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, a dude wrangler, and is now one of the most popular � Western entertainers working today. He has been voted Six Our 2013 concert with Dave Stamey sold times Entertainer of the Year, Six times Male Performer of out!!!! Get your tickets early!

Friday, June 10th Small Miracles Foundation Roping Small Miracles Foundation Dinner, Dance and Auction Saturday, June 11th Small Miracles Barrel Race Glennville Rodeo Dance Sunday, June 12th 2016 Rodeo Moves Back to 2nd Weekend in June 68th Annual Glennville Rodeo The Richest PRCA One-Day Rodeo in the Nation In the Loop FALL 2015 7 TIPS 8th Annual from Pam

Life Began BBQ in a Garden Don’t Miss this Awesome Event!

Saturday, October 3rd at the GMVA Rodeo Grounds is the Saturday, October 3, 2015 Annual Campus Life Ride 4 Youth Barbecue and auction. GMVA Rodeo Grounds Campus Life has had clubs in Blake and Linns Valley schools for over 20 years. They have also conducted work days to Glennville, CA help Sierra Christian Camp and the GMVA Rodeo for the past 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 3 years. Lunch served at 12 Noon This is their 8th annual Ride 4 Youth Barbeque, and it is the third year they are holding it at the Rodeo Grounds. A barbeque meal ticket can be purchased for $10.00 per adult, and $5.00 for children ten and under in advance through Denise Hatton, Best of Bike Contest Jim Lewis, or the Campus Life office in Bakersfield or at the Simple Steps for door. Time of the event is 11:00 am – 1:00 pm. Lunch served Prize GIveaways at noon. A Best of Bike Contest, Prize Giveaways, a live & silent auction, and super raffle ending with a brief Campus Silent Auction Bulb Success! Life presentation is provided. We appreciate the Greenhorn If there were such a thing as a primer of fall bulbs, it would Mountain community’s support of this event. Super Raffle be a very thin book. Bulbs are almost foolproof — there is little you can do to prevent their natural flowering cycle. Plant them in the fall and they bloom in the spring, often One reason a dog can be such a comfort.. when you’re feeling blue popping up right through late winter snows. That being is that he doesn’t try to find out why - Author Unkown said, there are just a few other things to check off the list Properly trained, a Man can be a Dog’s Best Friend - Corey Ford when planting fall bulbs: • Choose a sunny location — the more sun they get, the better they bloom. RODEO 101: 67th Annual Glennville Rodeo WELCOME TO THE • Make sure there is adequate drainage in the bed Cont’d from page 1 COMMUNITY — fall bulbs don’t like “wet feet.” there is the cost of the specialty acts, , judges, • Don’t plant the bulbs too deep — a good rule of !! New in our next edition !! thumb is to multiply the bulb’s height by three. announcer and sound system. When you add it all together, We are starting a new (So a tulip bulb that is two inches high would be the cost to the GMVA for the rodeo alone is $55,000. We have column for In the Loop. We planted six inches deep.) kept our ticket prices affordable at $15 per adult. In order to want to welcome anyone or just break even, the GMVA would have to sell 3,670 tickets to anything new that comes into Plant hardiness is very important to the rodeo. Obliviously, that did not happen, and I am not sure our community or into our where they would all sit if it ever did! So how do we succeed? lives. People, grandchildren, growing success. You’ll find zone Sponsors. It was never more evident than this past year that animals, new rigs, outstanding designations at the end of many of our wonderful sponsors are the key to our success. In a year gardens, new fences, etc., or the plant descriptions allowing you to of great economic downturns in both the oil and agricultural just show off some fantastic industry, getting sponsors was more challenging than ever. photography that you would purchase with knowledge that your However, through the hard work of GMVA members, board like to share with others. investment should grow, and thrive in of directors, and faithful sponsors, we were able to cover the Welcome to my ranch.... Send your photos and captions your area. The zone for the Glennville costs of the rodeo and use the profits of the concessions to Remington welcomes newborn next edition to: area is 8A. continue our other events throughout the year. foal, Leo to Martin-Stone Ranch [email protected] Our 68th Glennville Rodeo will be here in just 10 short months. In January, GMVA members will begin the difficult GMVA RODEO ... process of planning, meeting with sponsors, finding new sponsors, recruiting new Rodeo Queen contestants, and a Community Affair securing all the elements of the rodeo. We will be working on our grounds, planning for grandstand improvement and arena improvements, and expanding the VIP seating. Once again, we will dependent on our volunteers, members, and sponsors to help us succeed in these efforts. We will work hard, but there is always room for more members, and we always need more sponsors. You can help! Put us in contact with people you know who are interested in sponsorship. Come to a work day, come to a meeting, or volunteer to help on rodeo day. Do you have contacts in construction? We are committed to the process of improving our grandstands, but we need help in the construction requirements. Connect our board members with your construction contacts and let us see if we can make great strides in making our grandstands attractive and comfortable. Our mopping crew of the Community Hall following the 2015 Displaying our colors at the 2015 Glennville Rodeo at the opening If you choose to do just one thing, we will be even more Rodeo Dance. l-r Commander Bret Rogers, Mike Manny, ceremony. successful in 2016. Al Benjamin & Lou Calidonna

www.glennvillerodeo.org 8 FALL 2015 In the Loop GIVE to GROW Autumn Beef Stew CONFIDENT KIDS From MidwestLiving Magazine HOLIDAY GIFT & CRAFT FAIRE Join the 4-H Youth Program by Christine Lindley, Glennville 4-H Member November 28 Corndogs, snow cones, and livestock..what do all of these The 2015 GMVA Holiday Gift & Craft Faire will feature have in common? The Kern County Fair is right around local artisans with western type items, home décor, jewelry, Makes: the corner, and Glennville 4-H members are preparing their quilts, linens along with embroidered goods, and unique 8 servings projects for two weeks of fun and gifts for the whole family. This years event will be held on Hands On: adventure. Do you remember the Saturday, November 28th at the GMVA Community Hall, 45 mins wonderful, long days at our local located in downtown Glennville. Doors open at 8 AM and Total Time 2 hrs fair? Getting to the livestock the shopping continues until 3 PM. What a great and easy barns early in the morning, way to get your Christmas shopping started (or finished!). cleaning the pens and preparing Support our local friends and neighbors with your purchase for the next show class? If of quality items that will be treasured for years to come. you’ve never exhibited before, Pam Manny, our Holiday Faire Coordinator, is still We riffed off Julia Child’s legendary boeuf these are some of the things that accepting vendors for this years event. Vendor Spaces will bourguignon, stealing her trick of flavoring a wine- the Glennville 4-H Club does during this busy time. vary: $25 per table, (spaces vary depending on size or if rich beef stew with bacon drippings, but adding Last year was the club’s first time exhibiting at the fair, and power is needed) To register as a vendor, please contact Pam generous chunks of carrot, potato and butternut proved to be a very fun and rewarding experience. The club Manny at 661-444-1319 or at [email protected]. squash. members exhibited their market and dairy goats, winning GMVA will also be offering their special breakfast and Ingredients: multiple ribbons and plaques. Glennville 4-H’s theme exhibit lunch items throughout the day. Come bring the whole family for its market goats won Overall 4-H Theme Exhibit, as well for a great shopping and delicious food! 1/4 cup all-purpose flour as the Clean Stall Award in both market and dairy goats. 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt Some of its individual members won 5th, 7th, and Overall 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper Grand Champion in the costume contest, Goats and Gold, 2 pounds boneless beef chuck, trimmed of excess as well as overall Grand Champion Peewee Showmanship, fat and cut into 1 1/2-inch chunks Overall Grand Champion Senior Dairy Goat Showmanship, 2 strips bacon, cut crosswise into 1/4-inch strips the John Strickland Memorial Award for Premier Dairy Goat Canola oil Herdsman, as well as leading the invocation for the Market 2 medium onions, cut into 1/2-inch wedges Goat Auction. This club raised high quality animals in 2014, 4 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed There are often very important elements of community living which they continually strive to improve. Their highest 2 tablespoons tomato paste that don’t always get the time and attention winning market goats included 5th place overall (out of 247 5 cups reuduced-sodium chicken broth they need. Don’t think you’re qualified? at the Kern County Fair), and 4th place heavyweight market 2 cups less-sodium beef broth Your passion for an issue can often offset doe. Their dairy goats continually placed well, winning 1st 1 1/2 cups dry red wine any direct experience you might not have. and 2nd place Sr. Milking Does, 3rd place intermediate Kid, 3 bay leaves Take Action: The Greenhorn Mountain and 4th place Dry Yearling. 1 tablespoon snipped fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon Veterans Association (GMVA) meets the Glennville 4-H is gearing up for another great fair, with dried thyme, crushed 1st Thursday of each month at the GMVA members not only exhibiting 1 teaspoon smoked paprika Community Hall in Glennville, CA. Meetings begin at 7 pm their market and dairy goats, but 1 pound potatoes, cut into 2-inch chunks and the public is welcome to attend. What a great way to also rabbits. With the support 1 pound butternut squash; peeled, seeded and cut serve your community, meet your neighbors, and have fun. and encouragement of this into 1 1/2-inch chunks Membership is open year round. For more information visit community, these 4-Hers are 4 carrots, cut into 1-inch chunks our website at www.glennvillerodeo.org. learning livestock management, 2 stalks celery, sliced into 1/2-inch thick marketing, and record keeping. 1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley If you would like to come see this local club’s learning and Directions: work at the Fair, they will be exhibiting in the goat barn (behind the Livestock Pavilion) In a large plastic bag, combine flour, salt and and at the Rabbit Barn beginning September 23-October 4. pepper. Add beef; shake to coat evenly. In a Dutch Hope to see you all at the Great Kern County Fair. oven or large heavy pot, cook and stir bacon over medium-high heat until crisp. Transfer to paper towels with a slotted spoon. Add enough oil to bacon POSEY COMMUNITY CHURCH GLENNVILLE 4-H MEETS HERE drippings to equal 2 tablespoons. Add half the beef to pot, shaking off any excess flour. Cook, stirring Pastor Tom Hughes occasionally, until browned. Remove beef with a Campinero Road, Posey slotted spoon. Repeat with remaining beef. Worship Time at 10 am If pot is dry, add 1 tablespoon of oil. Add onions; cook and stir for about 4 minutes or until starting Elberon Community to brown. Stir in garlic; cook for 1 minute. Stir in Church tomato paste. Return beef, bacon and any remaining Glennville 4-H meets every second Monday of every month flour to pot. Stir to combine. Add chicken and beef Pastor Bruce Hatton (except for January) at 6 PM at the GMVA Community Hall. broth, wine, bay leaves, thyme and paprika. Bring to Hwy 155 Woody, CA We would LOVE to see you there. If you would like to know a boil; reduce heat. Simmer, covered, for 1 1/2 hours Worship Time at 10 am more, contact: or until meat is tender, stirring occasionally. Children’s classes available Tammy Lindley, Add potatoes, squash, carrots and celery. Return Community Club Leader to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, covered, for 15 Mount Carmel Community Church minutes. Remove lid and simmer about 15 minutes 661.536.8415 more or until vegetables are tender and liquid is Pastor Harrell Knox desired consistency. Remove bay leaves. Stir in Glennville, CA 536-8238 Our projects include: Goats (Dairy and Meat), Chicken and parsley. Enjoy! Worship Time 10:30 am Poultry, Rabbits, Shooting Sports Rifle Pistol and Shotgun Children’s classes available and Cloverbuds. www.glennvillerodeo.org In the Loop FALL 2015 9 Saddle Sore Saloon Brands their New Outside Bar

There are lots of interesting frog facts that you might not • Frog fossils have been found all over the world except in know, and maybe some frog facts that you do already know. Antarctica, probably because it is too cold all year round Take a look at these frog facts and see what you can learn. there for frogs to live. Some of the fossils that have been found are as old as dinosaurs! • Frogs are amphibians because they start their frog life cycle as eggs in the water and then turn into tadpoles, which • A group of fish is called a school, but a group of frogs is have gills and also live in the water. It isn’t until a tadpole called an army. Do you think that is why army colors are turns into a frog that it can live outside of the water, but it green? A group of people is called a group. will still need to get in the water to drink and to cool off. Yellow-Banded Poison Arrow Frog • Not all frogs are green. There are hundreds of species of frogs and each one looks different. Some frogs are red and • Frogs don’t actually drink water with their mouths; they some are yellow and some are brown. All of the different drink it through their skin. A frog’s skin absorbs water when species of frogs have different patterns on their skin, too. it is in the water so its body gets all of the hydration that it Local Saddle Sore Saloon hosted an appreciation bbq needs that way and the frog doesn’t need to drink with its • One way to tell a male frog from a female frog is by look- for people in the community on Saturday, September 4th mouth. ing at its ears. The ears can be found right behind the frog’s thanking them for their support and friendship. Over 300 eyes. If the ears are as big as the eyes, then the frog is a boy. people attended the event that included not only people from • Frogs are cold blooded. That means that the body tempera- If the ears are smaller than the frog’s eyes, then the frog is a the community but quite a few not from the community. ture of a frog is the same on the inside as it is on the outside. girl. Feasting on pork and beef ribs, deep pit beef and side dishes That is why frogs need to be near water so that they can brought by attendees, it was a wonderful evening to brand the jump in and cool off on hot days. • The male frog is the only one who can croak, and every new bar located on the outside patio of Saddle Sore. frog species makes its own unique sound and some are not “It took 2 hours to get everyone served,” owner Tim • Frogs hibernate in the wintertime. even croaks. Some frogs whistle and some chirp like a bird. Collom mentioned with a big smile on his face. Everyone had a wonderful time dancing to the sound of the band • When frogs hibernate their sort of grow a layer, like • A frog won’t turn into a prince, no matter how many times “Casino”, while the children enjoyed the bounce house and a tree does. When you look inside a frog’s bone you will be you kiss him! face painting. able to see rings and tell how old the frog is by counting the Thank you Saddle Sore Saloon for your commitment to this rings. www.learnaboutnature.com community. Get Your Yard Ready for Winter Now that the weather is finally starting to turn, infections, so clean those leaves up as soon as they drop! preparing your yard to survive the coming winter is important for a beautiful yard in the coming Spring. 6. Keep composting Here are some tips and tricks to help your lawn and If you have a compost bin, you can add any fallen leaves as you rake them up! The leaves will help insulate the pile garden survive the cold weather! and keep it warm so it can keep decomposing throughout the winter. And don’t forget to keep turning your compost 1. Keep watering and mowing your lawn throughout the winter to help keep the temperature in the Fall is the time when grass stops putting its energy into pile consistent. growing blades of grass, and instead starts growing its root system. Your grass will grow slower, but it is still 7. Protect your potted plants soaking up all the nutrients it can find, so make sure you Plants can go dormant over winter, but their roots can’t, keep mowing your lawn so that sunlight and water can so make sure you protect the roots of any potted plants! continue to reach the plant. is the time to do it! Your plants will soon stop producing For the same reason you mulch around your perennials, leaves and focus instead on growing a deep root system, you want to insulate your potted plants to help protect the 2. Fill in bare patches, control weeds, and fertilize so if you need to move a tree or shrub, do it now so it can roots from the cold. Try to protect the plant from huge Now is the perfect time to prepare your lawn to be lush spend the next few months developing those roots! And of temperature swings by moving it to the shadiest side of and green in spring! If you have any bald patches, fill course, don’t forget to mulch around the base of all of your your house, and putting the pot on dirt instead of on the them in using a grass patch repair mix from your local perennials to help insulate and protect the plants’ roots! pavement; this will help protect the plant from soaking hardware store. And once those patches are fixed up, put up too much heat from the sun during the day and then out any weed control during early- to mid-fall. If you kill 4. Clean up any annuals freezing at night. You can also wrap the pot itself in a the weeds now, they won’t regrow in spring! Once you’re blanket, bury the pot in soil up to the top of the container, pretty sure the weeds are dead all the way down to their Annuals don’t last over the winter, so as soon as your annuals are done producing leaves or flowers, pull them or even put the pot inside a second, larger pot to help root system, put out lawn fertilizer (mid- to late-fall). The insulate the roots of the plant. fertilizer will provide the necessary nutrients to help your out of your garden bed. It makes for a lot less cleanup in lawn survive the cold winter! spring if you pull them out now! Plus your yard will look cleaner over the winter without the dead plants hanging 8. Get your gardening gear stored away around. Once you finish prepping your yard for winter, get all your 3. Prune, mulch, and transplant your perennials gardening gear put away! You won’t need your seed starter If you have perennials in your yard, prune them back 5. Rake up fallen leaves kits, trowels, fertilizer, hand rakes, etc. during the winter, to help protect their extremities from the cold weather. but you’ll want easy access to them as soon as spring hits! Every perennial is slightly different, so ask around at your Raking leaves isn’t a fun job, but it’s got to be done! Rake your leaves as they fall; don’t wait for a tree to drop all An 18 gallon Rubbermaid storage tote is perfect for the local nursery or search online to find instructions for your job! specific plants. If you need to transplant anything, now its leaves. Fallen leaves will clump together if they get wet and they can suffocate your grass and lead to fungal 10 FALL 2015 In the Loop Grisedale Boys Rank at the TOP Reading with Pictures 2015 California Junior Cowboys Association All-Around Champions by Rebekah Rogers Fall is perhaps the second most wonderful time of the year, at least according by Abby Grisedale to many parents. However, there are parents and students across the country In his very first year of High School Rodeo, local that find fall and the return to school a time full of stress and anxiety. These cowboy Brant Grisedale worked his way up the ranks are often the families that have students with learning differences. From ADD of the California High School Rodeo Association. to Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, to nonverbal learning disabilities and those on the Throughout the year, Brant’s background in ranching Autism Spectrum, school and learning are daunting. was evident as he roped and rode his way into several Learning differences however, are not a lifelong sentence to horrible Rookie All-Around buckles, one at the Coalinga school experiences. While every person is different and each child unique, our Classic, Paso Robles Mid-State Classic, and at the brains have the same basic structure, and the processing needed to read and California High School Rodeo State Finals Rodeo. As comprehend is the same. Reading is not one skill unto itself. Instead it is he competed in , he also picked up the an integration of sensory cognitive functions: Phonemic Awareness, Symbol reserve champion spot in Paso Robles. He worked hard Imagery, and Concept Imagery. These sensory cognitive functions have Caden & Brant Grisedale display their hard to win the top spot in the CHSRA District 6 saddle been identified by Pat Lindamood and Nanci Bell through almost 30 years of earned winnings. Congratulations! bronc event, winning his first trophy saddle. research. What they also found is that the sensory cognitive functions can be A new competitor in one of the most strenuous and strengthened, and the actual structure of the brain changed through language challenging events, Brant placed fourth in the saddle bronc to snatch up a spot on the California National and intensive instruction. team where he competed against 99 top high school rodeo athletes, ending up 27th in the nation. His newest Phonemic Awareness is the ability to discriminate and order the sounds adventure is in Coalinga, CA as a freshman at West Hills Community College. He is studying agriculture with in words. Symbol Imagery is the ability to create mental representations and will compete this season for the rodeo team in steer wrestling, , tie-down roping, and saddle for sounds, this effects a person’s word recognition, and spelling, and ability to bronc. read fluently on the page. Younger brother Caden spent his last year making Concept Imagery is the ability to create an imaged gestalt for the language a name for himself on the California Jr. High Rodeo you read or hear, basically create a movie in your mind. While the identification Association circuit. He competed in and qualified for and closing of major gaps in any of these Sensory Cognitive functions takes state finals in steer saddle bronc, steer bareback, team time and professional help, there are some simple things you can do with your roping, ribbon roping, chute dogging, steer stopping student at home. First, read with your student, take turns reading sentences, or and breakaway. In CJHSRA District 6, Caden came identifying new sight words. When you finish a page ask your student what out on top, winning the Jr, High All Around title and those words made them picture. Ask what they are picturing, the size, color, managed to pick up a few all-around buckles just like and movement they see. his brother.Three in Oakdale, one at the Clovis Chute Most of all, remember that everyone can learn to their potential and that Out and the King City Invitational. At the California Jr. every student wants to succeed, but some need to be shown how to. High State Finals, he placed second in the steer saddle Brant sees that his trophy saddle looks good on his bronc, qualifying him for a trip to the National Jr. High Rebekah Rogers is the Associate Center Director for Linda Mood-Bell in Boston horse Rodeo Finals where he landed 15th out of 168 Jr. High Massachusetts. She a member of the the Worship Band at Church at the Well in East rodeo athletes. Boston, playing the piano and mandolin. She is also the daughter of Bret & Erin Cont’d on page 11 Rogers of Glennville. In the Loop FALL 2015 11

The Ranchers’ Wife By Nancy Carver

“What do you do?” this career with a sensible idea “I’m a rancher’s wife” about money - I had never really “Oh… you’re a cowgirl?” had any - so I was content with “No, I am not a cowgirl!” whatever came my way. I had “Oh… you don’t get up at 4 a.m. and ride the range with a home and a gentleman of a your husband, gathering up all those cows before daylight?” husband that loved and respected “Nope!” me unconditionally. I needed “Then what do you do?” nothing else; I was happy with “I am a rancher’s wife.” that. Raised as a foreigner in a After 36 years of being a career rancher’s wife I have strange land, I was forced to learn decided that there are a few things I’d like to share with those to navigate all sorts of language Nancy Carver of you who think that being married to a rancher is the same - social - cultural obstacles, A proud wife of a rancher thing as being a cowgirl. which developed in me some First, not all rancher’s wives are created equally. We don’t pretty awesome social survival skills! I quickly made friends, all come in a “one size fits all” package! (people in small towns are not always nice, welcoming Second, we are not all cowgirls. Many ranchers’ wives or friendly!) and began learning the skills I would need to work off the ranch as nurses, social workers, or teachers. We make it as a rancher’s wife. Fortunately for me, I was blessed do not necessarily help with the every day work of the ranch, with a wonderful mentor, my dear mother-in-law, Mabel however without us, the rancher, most likely, would not be (Maddux) Carver. She never criticized anything I did, and able to pursue his dream of running his own herd. Without always encouraged me. She was a gentle and patient teacher. his wife, a rancher might even have to give up his dream and She taught me about gardening and harvesting, canning and move to the city to make a living. freezing. She taught me the necessity of always having a SNOW Third, many of us never grew up on a ranch or around cows. well-stocked pantry, about being flexible and always being We just happened to be the woman that our man fell in love ready to feed my man and the crew when they were ready to ... IT HAPPENS with and chose as his wife, with or without ranching skills! eat. She also taught me how to properly welcome people to Believe it or not, my husband did not meet me anywhere near our community. Never hurts to review these tips a barn. We met at Biola College in La Mirada, California. I I came into this career with a set of core values, a few It’s coming. Even as you look outside and say “she’s know I did not meet the usual criteria for a rancher’s wife skills, incredible energy, enthusiasm, and an interest that were crazy”, winter has and always will come our way. Like it (whatever that is!) the springboard for everything else I had to learn. I quickly or not, each and every winter our mountain community is I did not come from a family with an agricultural learned to ride a horse, (although I never became a confident blessed with a beautiful snowfall. background. Until I met my husband, I had never been around rider and was never any help in a jam out on the range!) to You wake up one morning to find the roads blanketed in cows. I didn’t know that cows had personalities, that they drive a stick shift with no power steering, and how to haul a thick carpet of snow It’s still too early for the snowplows are creatures of habit, that different cows are better suited horses in a trailer. I learned “cow psychology” and am pretty to have gotten around our small community. You’re a little for different climates or types of forage, or that there were good at “standing in the gap” (or the gate) while working nervous about going out but you get in your vehicle and begin different kinds of hay for those different kinds of cows. I did cattle. I know how to get the herd moving quickly and how to your drive anyway. not know what an elastrator, birthing chains, a come-along, or keep them quiet. I have learned to read tracks and signs and After a little while with no mishaps you grow more a branding chute were. I had never assisted in a bovine birth, I am pretty good at helping my husband find cattle out on the confident and inch back up to your usual speed. The radio had never handled a hay hook and I certainly didn’t know that range. I have a mechanical horse - a quad - which allows me is playing your favorite talk show, and the traffic conditions there was such a thing as “cow psychology”! Looking at me to track, find and move cattle, check water on remote parts of have you convinced that you won’t be late. But now you’re from that perspective, it would have seemed, that I would not the ranch, and check first-time calving heifers. I have become traveling down a hill toward a sharp turn, and when you apply have been ideal ranch wife material. quite a handy ranch hand. I now know when a cow needs the brakes, you can feel that something’s wrong. You’re not There were some things, however, that I did bring to my birthing help, can tell a sick cow from a healthy one, and I can slowing down, and now you find yourself high center in a career. I was born and raised in a very rural community in load and feed hay myself. (By the way, those hay hooks sure snowbank or you have your neighbor’s fence surrounding the country of Mexico. We lived for many years without come in handy!) I am also a good cook and know how to keep your vehicle. electricity, running water or a flush toilet. I knew how to wash a crew fed and happy. It never hurts for each of us to remind ourselves how to laundry in a wringer washer, how to dry it on a clothesline, I am a willing and helpful partner to my rancher husband. drive on snow and ice. how to iron using sadirons heated on top of the stove, and I’d like to believe that I have played a big part in him living how to mend on a treadle machine. I also knew how to live out his dream; that of carrying on his family’s cattle ranching Tips for driving in the snow: by my in-law’s favorite motto, “Use it up, wear it out, make legacy. He is a successful rancher, thanks partly to me, because do, or do without!” for that is how we lived. I also knew how I made the choice to stay at home and be his helpmate. I made 1. Accelerate and decelerate slowly valuable and precious water is, having lived in a desert all the career choice to be his partner, to work with him come 2. Drive slowly my life, so I knew how to conserve it. I’d had a horse named rain or shine, flood or drought. I made the decision to “make 3. The normal dry pavement following distance of three to Blaze and a burro named Pablo when I was young. Although do or do without” on the ranch. We raised four wonderful four seconds should be increased to eight to ten sec- I knew from which end to approach a horse and how to sit on children who are now, along with our four grandchildren, our onds. it, I still did not know how to ride a horse. greatest rewards for our years of toil. 4. Know your brakes Because I was raised outside of the U.S., I did not have No, I am not a cowgirl. I do not ride, rope, or do any of 5. Don’t stop if you can avoid it the same values and ideas about money and materialism that the other awesome things cowboys and cowgirls do. I am 6. Don’t power up hills most of my contemporaries had in the late 70’s. I came into perfectly happy and content to say simply, “I am rancher’s 7. Don’t stop going up a hill wife,” and it has been a great life!! 8. Stay home

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Yields: 24 - 5 inch Gingerbred Men

Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda 1⁄4 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon ground ginger 1 3⁄4 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cloves 6 tablespoons unsalted butter 3⁄4 cup dark brown sugar 1 large egg 1⁄2 cup molasses 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest (optional)

Directions

In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves until well blended. In a large bowl (KitchenAid’s great for this) beat butter, brown sugar, and egg on medium speed until well blended. Add molasses, vanilla, and lemon zest and continue to mix until well blended. Gradually stir in dry ingredients until blended and smooth. Divide dough in half and wrap each half in plastic and let stand at room temperature for at least 2 hours or up to 8 hours. Preheat oven to 375 deg. Prepare baking sheets by lining with parchment paper. (Dough can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 days, but in this case it should be refrigerated. Return to room temp before using.) Preheat oven to 375°. Grease or line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Place 1 portion of the dough on a lightly floured surface. Sprinkle flour over dough and rolling pin. Roll dough to a scant 1/4-inch thick. Use additional flour to avoid sticking. Cut out cookies with desired cutter-- the ginger bread man is our favorite of course. Space cookies 1 1/2-inches apart. Bake 1 sheet at a time for 7-10 minutes (the lower time will give you softer cookies-- very good!). Remove cookie sheet from oven and allow the cookies to stand until the cookies are firm enough to move to a wire rack. After cookies are cool you may decorate them any way you like. Brush them with a powdered sugar glaze when I am in a hurry, but they look wonderful decorated with Royal icing. bite his head off...